1/x Very interesting. Explains why patients suddenly take a severe turn for the worse. Appears they are developing #bloodclots; from “swiping on their phones” to coding in minutes. #COVID19 @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04…
2/x Doctors #COVID19: “Increasingly convinced that covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain....Patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease deteriorating within minutes and dying at home.” Id.
3/x “They describe patients with startlingly low oxygen levels -so low that they would normally be unconscious or near death -talking & swiping on their phones...With no clear patterns in terms of age or chronic conditions, some scientists now hypothesize [#COVID changes blood.]”
4/x “Autopsies have shown that some people’s lungs are filled with hundreds of microclots. Errant blood clots of a larger size can break off and travel to the brain or heart, causing a stroke or a heart attack.” (#NickCordero had his leg amputated). But, this clotting is unusual
5/x Blue legs in patients on blood thinners, clogged dialysis machines multiple x daily. “Even patients on blood thinners in the ICU were developing clots in them — which is not unusual in one or two patients in one unit, but is for so many at the same time” Id.
6/x “Then came the autopsies. When they opened up some deceased patients’ lungs, they expected to find evidence of pneumonia and damage to the tiny air sacs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and the bloodstream. Instead, they found tiny clots all over.” Id
7/x “In hindsight, there were hints that blood problems had been an issue in China and Italy as well, but it was more of a footnote in studies and on information-sharing calls that focused on the disease’s effects on lungs.” Noting- excessive clotting & bleeding simultaneously.
9/x Interesting - Evidence from a #Dutch Study and a #Chinese study show prevalence- quoted in article. Researchers still do not know WHY the clots form. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… 
10/x I wonder if this explains about the issues with #Diabetics who notoriously have circulation issues, but not asthmatics? Also the involvement with pregnant women and the clotting issues after birth? Study below quoted w/i article Id. #COVID19 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
11/x 2 of the study links were broken. The Dutch Study & Journal of The American College of Cardiology “anchored” by Behnood Bikdeli, a 4th year Fellow -@Columbia Irving Med. Center. #Bikdeli notes clotting among the top 3 causes of d&d. Id. columbiacardiology.org/education/gene… @ACCinTouch
